Towards the end of my placement at NPL a few months ago, I was asked by Kingston University to write a short bit of text about my time on placement such as how it helped me, and what it’s given me for the future. Then, after providing the uni with a photo of myself the piece was published a few months later in the 2009 Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics prospectus.

Below is an excerpt of the piece;

“I’m nearing the end of my placement at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington. I’ve been working as a technical coordinator in the knowledge transfer team doing web development and managing technical setups at events and conferences…” More…

 If you fancy seeing the page it’s on you can download it as a PDF here.

You may have noticed a strange new login box appear on the homepage over the past couple weeks, and if you’ve been wondering what it’s all about, then hopefully this will put those thoughts to rest!

Currently only a couple of features exist once you login, even though the plan is to increase these and make the site a whole lot more user orientated. It’s fine for anyone to sign up, snoop around and everything else, but you’ll have to bear in mind it’s still in beta - probably alpha is the better term! - and so its quite bare bones, and some stuff ultimately wont work the way it’s meant to!

Keep an eye out on the site to hopefully see more updates over the next few weeks!…